How a researcher's values are handled in a qualitative study
What is acknowledging and exploring them so that interactions with the participant are understood?
100
The degree to which findings from the research can be generalized to cases not included in the researcher's sample.
What is external validity?
100
A sample that includes the same proportion regarding ethnicity as the population.
What is stratified random sampling?
100
Data that already exists from a previous study to answer a new research question
What is secondary data?
100
The level of measurement that results when cases are only grouped into discrete categories (for example, “single” or “married”)
What is nominal?
200
The difference between etic and emic perspectives in ethnographic research
What is whether the researcher is an insider or outsider to the culture being studied?
200
The type of reliability estimate produced when one estimates the degree to which there is consensus among different people in their measurements of some variable
What is inter-rater (or inter-observer) reliability?
200
A sampling strategy that includes every Nth person on a list
What is Systematic Random Sampling?
200
The goal of an experimental design
What is to establish the relationship between dependent and independent variables?
200
A question that is phrased in such a way to suggest the desired answer
What is a leading question?
300
A type of data collection used in qualitative research (note: there are many right answers--just name one!)
What are personal interviews, focus groups, or direct observation?
300
A type of reliability determined by administering the same measuring instrument to the same group of people on two separate occasions to observe the similarities between the result
What is test-retest reliability?
300
Asking participants if they know of other people in a similar situation who might be willing to participate, too
What is snowball sampling?
300
The name of the group that does not receive treatment in an experimental design
What is the control group?
300
A type of question that has another question embedded within it (example: do you think cats and dogs make good pets?)
What is a double-barreled question?
400
A common way to analyze qualitative data
What is thematic analysis, or transcribing and analyzing interviews according to themes that appear in the data?
400
One of the three ways of improving the realiability of a measurement instrument
What is standardizing environmental factors during measurement, conducting a pilot study of the instrument, or increasing the number of items on a test?
400
Sampling error
What is the natural tendency of a sample to differ to some degree from the population from which it was drawn?
400
The type of study that develops techniques and a sense of directions for more inquiries, especially when there is very little know about the problem
What is an exploratory study?
400
A step that should be done before administering a survey to participants in a study
What is doing a pilot/pretest?
500
Instead of reliability and validity, qualitative research is concerned about these concepts to ensure the methods are rigorous and the findings are believable
What are trustworthiness and credibility?
500
A measure of how well one variable or set of variables predicts an outcome based on information from other variable
What is criterion validity?
500
A sampling strategy in which every case in the sample has an equal chance of being selected.
What is probability sampling?
500
A design that involves a pre-test/post-test of one group of subjects at different intervals of time; groups are chosen out of convenience, not randomization.
What is quasi-experimental design?
500
A data collection method used to elicit an individual participant's detailed perceptions, with room for follow-up questions to probe for details